How Can You Improve Your Chickens? (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut)
An Arabic poultry-breeding sheet titled 'How can you improve your chickens'. Drawn hens, roosters, chicks and eggs sit between boxed lines saying that a good cock of a chosen breed put with local hens gives bigger, stronger chicks, more and larger eggs and more meat; a man in overalls points to the rooster and later weighs two birds on a carrying pole. A footer refers readers to the Ministry of Agriculture or the U.S. Point Four mission. The tell is plain-folks: an ordinary farmer figure and farm-yard drawings present the advice as everyday practice.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- January 27, 1954
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Economy and finance, Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, January 27, 1954. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948765, 306-PPB-16).
Text on the object
كيف يمكنك تحسين دجاجك ضع ديكًا جيدًا من نوع مختار مع الدّجاج البلدي للحصول على نتيجة أفضل الحاصل ... بيضتان وصوصان بنفس الحجم ولكن ... عندما ينمو الصوص يصبح دجاجة أكبر وأقوى تبيض ... بيضًا أكثر وأكبر ولهذا يعني صيصانًا أكبر وأقوى ولحمًا أكثر للحصول على معلومات أكثر الرجاء الاتصال بوزارة الزراعة أو ببعثة الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية للأعمال (النقطة الرابعة) [emblem:] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
How can you improve your chickens Put a good cock of a selected breed with the local hens to get a better result The result ... Two eggs and two chicks of the same size But ... When the chick grows it becomes a bigger and stronger hen It lays ... more and bigger eggs And this means bigger and stronger chicks And more meat For more information please contact the Ministry of Agriculture or the Mission of the United States of America for Operations (Point Four) [emblem:] UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Arabic script read from a stylised display typeface; the emblem lettering is in English.
